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With Eight Edition came the reprinting of a card from Tempest that was a personal favorite of mine and an awesome card for burn decks. This card is Furnace of Rath. First we have to look at the pros and cons of Furnace of Rath.

It's great for burn decks because all of you're burn spells deal double the damage. The main problem with it is that you're opponent’s spells and creatures also deal double the damage. The solution to this is to have a faster deck that can kill them before the Furnace of Rath starts to work against you. So the only color of the deck will be red because there are too many good red cards out with casting costs requiring large amounts of red mana.

is a must have. It can handle small creatures and finish off your opponent in long games, and with a Furnace of Rath it can kill twice as big of creatures and kill your opponents twice as fast. Volcanic Hammer

are reusable ways to deal damage to your oppenents. Isochren Scepter gets two copies in the decklist because it's always nice to be able to keep reusing a burn spell (especially if it deals double damage because of a Furnace of Rath). Pyroclasm

s in order to keep blue and/or white decks from getting the mana the need to win. It also has lots of artifact destruction to use against the many different decks based around artifacts in type II right now. The Bottle Gnomes

. Pulse of The Fields often manage to just prolong the game but sometimes they can stall long enough for you to be overwhlemed by white creatures or control cards. If you find this happening cut out some or all of the Bottle Gnomes